Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

A red dot on a face-shaped stone in Spain may well break records. Approximately 43,000 years old, this dot could be the ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

The rise of a great art never was the result simply of a shift in symbolism. If certain outstanding artists had not demonstrated how powerful an expression could be achieved within the abstract ...

These artists have had a profound impact on society, culture, and history by shaping artistic movements and sparking ...

In this view, symbolic behavior, such as art and abstract expression, only emerged in our own species and relatively recently. But over the past few decades, this perspective has been changing.

Another popular storytelling style in African children's art is depicting scenes from everyday life. These scenes usually ...

Pollock became a leading figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement ... art was pure abstraction, rendering art emptied of any historical or symbolic representation. In a 1952 ARTnews article ...

The artifact indicates that symbolic art existed in the region well before ... the people who lived in the region around 6400 BCE. Its abstract form and the absence of exaggerated features suggest ...